A GERMAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD, JAKOB THURNOVER, AUGSBURG, 1590-95 |

Finely chased with a continuous early morning stag hunt in three ovals, interrupted by male and female masks with exaggerated foreheads on a matt ground with fruit and strapwork, repeated at the hinged cover, lion finial, underside with contemporary initials MHP and IMTH

Good clear marks to underside. Austrian tax marks to rim of upper body. Fine condition throughout. The chased panels particularly fine.
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Dr. Seling includes a single record for this goldsmith. Two vases from High Altar of the state chapel of Maximilian I of Bavaria. The altar is made by a number of Augsburg goldsmiths and is remarkable for the quality of its chasing. See: Helmut Seling, Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede 1529-1868, Munich 1980, vol II, nos. 248-231